@article{ref1,
title="Somatic symptoms and health-related quality of life among treatment-seeking Canadian Forces personnel with PTSD",
journal="Psychiatry research",
year="2014",
author="St Cyr, Kate and McIntyre-Smith, Alexandra and Contractor, Ateka A. and Elhai, Jon D. and Richardson, J. Don",
volume="218",
number="1-2",
pages="148-152",
abstract="This study examined the association between somatic complaints and health-related quality of life (HR-QoL) in treatment-seeking Canadian military personnel with military-related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Current and former Canadian Forces (CF) members attending the Parkwood Hospital Operational Stress Injury Clinic in London, Ontario (N=291) were administered self-report questionnaires assessing number and severity of somatic complaints, PTSD and depressive symptom severity, and mental and physical health-related quality of life (HR-QoL) prior to commencing treatment. Regression analyses were used to identify the role of somatic complaints on physical and mental HR-QoL, after controlling for PTSD symptom cluster and depressive symptom severity. Somatic symptom severity accounted for only a small amount of the variance in mental HR-QoL after accounting for PTSD symptom cluster and depressive symptom severity, but accounted for a larger proportion of the variance in physical HR-QoL after accounting for PTSD cluster and depressive symptom severity. Understanding the role of somatization in the symptom-presentation of military personnel with PTSD may provide additional avenues for treatment with this population.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0165-1781",
doi="10.1016/j.psychres.2014.03.038",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2014.03.038"
}